Dispensing display



Aug. 12, 1924. 1,504,883-

J. FAZIO DISPENSING DISPLAY Filed Fb. 28, 1922 INVEATR:

Jhr/ms FAZJO;

Patented Aug. 12, 1924.

UNITED STA JAMES FAZIO, or VENICE, CALIFORNIA;

DISPENSING DISPLAY.

Application filed February 28, 1922. Serial No. 539,959.

To all whom t may concern.:

Beit known that I, JAMEs- FAZIO, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Venice, in the county of Los .Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Dispensing Display, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices used for attracting attentionto beverage dispensing places.

@ne of the objects of this invention is to provide a device which draws attention to the beverage dispensed.

Another object is to display fruit, as moving in the direction to a point where 'beverage is being dispensed. v

Another object is to `display fruit moving f in the direction of a juice extracting device,

and displaying a liquid as coming from the juice extracting device and moving in the direction towards a dispensing place.

Another object is to display moving fruit in connection with a device', appearing to be a juice-extracting apparatus, close or in apparent operative relation to a beverage dispensing place. A.

Other objects will appear from lthe description and appended claims as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which- F ig. 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of a beverage dispensing place, illustrating other means in apparent connection, appearing to produce the dispensed beverage.v

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical sectionaly view of the device on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

It is desirable that only the purest beverl age is dispensed. On the other hand, it is not always possible to have competent help at dispensing places to produce the beverage satisfactory. However, a displaying of fruit in a sanitary manner, and incidentally giving the impression that the displayed fruit is supplying the juice dispensed at the place, is a great attraction for such dispensing places.

A faucet l is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, of the normal design used at dispensing places.v This faucet is in connection with a receptacle or reservoir, not shown in the drawing, from which a beverage is dispensed.

The whole matter illustrated in Fig. 1, is shown above the faucet 4, so as to give the impression that the faucet discharges the fluid produced by the above displayed mechanism and devices. A receptacle 5 is shown as resting o-n the table 6, just above the faucet 4. A chute or inclined trough 7 is illustrated as leading into the receptacle 5 coming from a point near a device 8 and being corrugated transversely so that a fluid may trickle downwardly along the chute 7 in the direction from the device 8 towards the receptacle 5. The device 8 is preferably of a form and appearance similar to chopping and extracting devices, having a rotating pulley 9 and a propelling or actuating belt 10. Above the device 8, a path or guide for falling or downwardly moving fruit or liquid-furnishing articles is illustrated, terminating at a point to allow such articles to pass behind the juice-extracting device 8 in such a manner as to give the appearance of a passing of such articles into the juice-extracting device. The guiding path is indicated at 11 in Figs. 1 and 2. Elevating or circulating means are used to bring the downwardly passing articles back to the top. An elevator-belt 12 with propelling or engaging projecting members 13 is illustrated in Fig. '2, the belt being movable over the pulleys 14. The belt and moving parts are preferably hidden in front behind a partition 15. The guiding path 11 is otherwise provided with a transparent or glass front 16, and the whole device is preferably provided with a transparent or glass front 17, so that Vthe movements of the downwardly passing articles and the operation of the pulley 9 of the device 8 can clearly be observed from the front, while nothing of the elevator or the upwardly returning articles is to be seen.

The falling effect behind the transparent front 17 in Fig. 2, is desirable in a device of this type, giving the advantage over positively guided and securely moved articles in so far as it tends to demonstrate that the fruit has been released and discharged at some vpoint above and is freely falling into the device 8, appearing to be a chopping or juice extractingjdevice. Positively guided and moved articles are liable to leave doubt about their being discharged into the eX- tracting device.

The chute or trough 7 is extended upwardly to a point that the upper end of the chute becomes normally hidden behind the device 8, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

A kpumping device 25 is provided `for drawing through its suction pipe 26` from the receptacle 5 and transmitting the fluid through its vdischarging pipe 27 over the top of :the chute/17, -so that a continuous stream of fluid is trickling or running down the chute or trough 7, in such a manner as i this' window 28 articles are caused to move ina direction towards the downwardly leading'gu'iding path l1. "A preferable manner of `accomplishingthe desired result is illustratedfinFig. 2, a; platform 29 being ro-` tatabl'ymounted' so as to vpasssupported arti'cleslp'ast the l'transparent front 28.

f VVingsmSO in the'shape of windmill-wings are provided' to furnish, additional attraction.

K'Fruitor other* articles may be placed on therotating platform and in the elevating or i'noving ldevice in' aj sanitary manner, so that theffruit remainsV undamaged within a closed'housi'ng.

'-jFfesha-nd pure juice or beverage 'may be drawn; from a `receptacle, not in any way ai'ectdby the vmechanism,v and may be disperised frornfthe 4faucet ,4, the displaying 'abovemerely'furnishing the attraction and indicating la fbeveragefdispensing place wli'erefbeveragel'is handled in a sanitaryv manner. f v

The partition 16 may, of course be eliminatedsincefthe'moving device or elevator p'can'easilybemounted closer-'to theV front of is'provid'ed lin such a 'device.

thefd'evice so that only one transparent front y Such slight inodific'ations'and 'others are possible, and I Ydo notlirnitinyself"| to vthe specific construcl tion of details specifiedv above, but merely to the :princi claims. v

(Having Ithus described my invention, I claimz i' f n 1f In a dispensing-display, a cabinet havingtransparent'portions and having a dispensing faucet at a `point below the transparent portions, fruitfguiding means within the cabinet visiblefbehindthe transparent portions, and other` guiding means for fluids in y pparent connection 'between the fruit guiding meansand the, faucet. i.

` 2.*In combination with a cabinet having transparent portions and supportinga beverage-dispensiii'g faucet, ra receptacle above the faucet, guideways, at-apoint to be visible behind l`the 'said transp arent portions in' the Vcabinet in apparent direction towards the receptacle, circulatingvv means in operative cc'gnnection withth'e; guideways yinto' the receptacle f'o'rproducing a trickling appear- *an'ce Vover 'the f guid'eways-intothe receptacle,

a device of the appearance of a juice-expl'es set forth in the followingA tracting apparatus above and partly in front of the guideways to give the appearance of discharging the fluid from the extracting apparatus, fruit-moving mechanism having means for looselyholding fruit and adapted to allow the fruit disposed in the mechanism to fall in the direction towards the juiceextracting apparatus.

3. In combination with a cabinet having transparent portions and supporting a beverage-dispensing faucet, a receptacle above the faucet, guideways at a point to be visible behind the said transparent portions in the cabinet in apparent direction towards the receptacle, circulating means in operative connection with the guideways and adapted to produce a trickling of fluid over the guideways into the receptacle, a device of the appearance of a juice extracting apparatus above and partly in front of the guideways to give the-appearance of discharging the fluid from the extracting apparatus, fruit moving means within the device in the direction towards the apparent juice-extracting device, a partition between the transparent front and the fruit-moving means, means for allowing fruit to fall from the moving means through the space between the transparent front and the partition in the direction towards the apparent juice-extracting device, and another fruit moving means moving in the direction towards rthe first-named moving means for giving the impression of supplying the vfruit in the first-named moving means.

'4. In a dispensing-display, a cabinet having transparent portions and having a dispensing faucet at a point below the transparent portions, fruit guiding means within the cabinet visible through the transparent portions, juice-extracting apparatus visible through the transparent portions apparently at a point to receive the fruit, and other guiding means for fluids in apparent connection between the juice-extracting apparatus and the said faucet.

5. In a device of the class described, a de vicel having the appearance of a grinder,v the device having means in the form of` a hopper with an open' rear, evenly curved guideways disposed to discharge in the direction .of the hopper-'and' adapted to receive fruit or the like in each of the curved turn-back portionsof the guideways to facilitate a rolling of such fruit through the curved guideways without material drop, the guidevways'beingopen at the front side, a conpears to come in the openguideways.

6. In a device for advertising the dispensing of fruit-juice, a guiding member for fruit and the like in form of a guideway having evenly curved turn-back portions in a practically vertical plane forming a continuous inclosed path between the upper and lower ends and arranged so as to facilitate and promote a rolling of matter through the guideway without material drop.

7 In a device for advertising the dispensing of fruit-juice, a guiding member for fruit and the like in form of an evenly curved guideway having inclined portions alternately slanting in opposite directions one below the other and having turn-back portions arranged between the inclined portions to form a continuous anduinclosed path between the upper and lower terminations so as to facilitate and promote a rolling of matter through the guideway without material drop from one incline to another.

8. In a fruit-juice dispensing display, a device of the appearance of a grinder7 the device having a portion of the a pearance of a hopper as seen from the ront and being open at the rear, and a conveyor with its lower termination behind the front portion of the appearance of a hopper within the open rear of the device and with its upper termination extending to a point spaced above the portion of the appearance of the hopper.

9. In a device for advertising the dispensing of fruit juice, a guiding member for fruit and the'like in form of an evenly curved guideway having turn-back portions arranged in a practically vertical plane so as to facilitate and promote a rolling of such matter through the guideway without material drop and having a transparent front through which the matter may be observed passing through the curved guideway.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES FAZIO.

Witnesses:

O. I-I. KRUEGER, MimAM LEE. 

